44th Academy Awards

Infobox Academy Awards | name = 44th
caption = "The French Connection"
date = Monday, April 10, 1972
site = Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
host = Helen Hayes, Alan King, Sammy Davis, Jr., Jack Lemmon
producer = Howard W. Koch
director = Marty Pasetta
network = NBC
last = 43rd
next = 45thThe 44th Academy Awards were presented April 10, 1972 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Helen Hayes, Alan King, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Jack Lemmon.

Winners & Nominees

Best Picture

"The French Connection"
*"A Clockwork Orange"
*"Fiddler on the Roof"
*"The Last Picture Show"
*"Nicholas and Alexandra"

Best Actor in a Leading Role

"The French Connection - Gene Hackman"
*"Fiddler on the Roof - Topol"
*"The Hospital - George C. Scott"
*"Kotch - Walter Matthau"
*"Sunday Bloody Sunday - Peter Finch"

Best Actress in a Leading Role

"Klute - Jane Fonda"
*"Mary, Queen of Scots - Vanessa Redgrave"
*"McCabe and Mrs. Miller - Julie Christie"
*"Nicholas and Alexandra - Janet Suzman"
*"Sunday Bloody Sunday - Glenda Jackson"

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

"The Last Picture Show - Ben Johnson"
*"Fiddler on the Roof - Leonard Frey"
*"The French Connection - Roy Scheider"
*"The Last Picture Show - Jeff Bridges"
*"Sometimes a Great Notion - Richard Jaeckel"

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

"The Last Picture Show - Cloris Leachman"
*"Carnal Knowledge - Ann-Margret"
*"The Go-Between - Margaret Leighton"
*"The Last Picture Show - Ellen Burstyn"
*"Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? - Barbara Harris"

Best Director

"The French Connection - William Friedkin"
*"A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick"
*"Fiddler on the Roof - Norman Jewison"
*"The Last Picture Show - Peter Bogdanovich"
*"Sunday Bloody Sunday - John Schlesinger"

Best Adapted Screenplay

"The French Connection - Ernest Tidyman"
*"A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick"
*"The Conformist - Bernardo Bertolucci"
*"The Garden of the Finzi-Continis - Ugo Pirro and Vittorio Bonecelli"
*"The Last Picture Show - Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich"

Best Original Screenplay

"The Hospital - Paddy Chayefsky"
*"Investigation of a Private Citizen - Ugo Pirro and Elio Petri"
*"Klute - Andy Lewis and Dave Lewis"
*"Summer of '42 - Herman Raucher"
*"Sunday Bloody Sunday - Penelope Gilliatt"

Best Cinematography

"Fiddler on the Roof - Oswald Morris"

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

"Nicholas and Alexandra - John Box , Ernest Archer , Jack Maxsted , Gil Parrondo and Vernon Dixon"

Best Costume Design

"Nicholas and Alexandra - Yvonne Blake and Antonio Castillo"

Best Sound

"Fiddler on the Roof - Gordon K. McCallum and David Hildyard"

Best Film Editing

"The French Connection - Gerald B.Greenberg"

Best Effects, Special Visual Effects

"Bedknobs and Broomsticks - Alan Maley , Danny Lee and Eustace Lycett"

Best Music, Original Song

"Shaft - Isaac Hayes for the song Theme from Shaft"

Best Music, Original Dramatic Score

"Summer of '42 - Michel Legrand"

Best Music, Scoring Adaptation and Original Song Score

"Fiddler on the Roof - John Williams"

Best Short Subject, Animated Films

"The Crunch Bird"

Best Short Subject, Live Action Films

"Sentinels of Silence"

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

"Sentinels of Silence"

Best Documentary, Features

"The Hellstrom Chronicle"

Best Foreign Language Film

"The Garden of the Finzi-Continis - Italy"

Charles Chaplin

Charles Chaplin received an honorary award at this ceremony, for "the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century". Chaplin, who had been living in self-imposed exile in Switzerland for twenty years, came back to the United States specifically to receive this award.

External links

* [http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1170200422160 Full list of nominees and winners]